Quotes by Fiction I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie details stories fiction I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction. China Mieville pieces jobs fiction Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. China Mieville fantasy attention fiction I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. China Mieville science-fiction conventions fiction I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek. China Mieville geek fantasy fiction I think science fiction is very bad at prediction. China Mieville science-fiction fiction thinking One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden. China Mieville weirdness fantasy fiction No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it. China Mieville prestige sex fiction And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate. Chinua Achebe adequate helping fiction Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot. Chris Abani first-love beautiful fiction Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life. Chris Abani narrative book fiction The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very good at imagining a utopia that is constantly changing and very busy, but a vision of paradise that would have been most tantalizing to an underfed overworked factory worker in 1840 doesn't have much appeal in fiction because it's not a story. Christine Jennings vision stories fiction There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at. Christopher Fry reality fiction thinking The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being. Christopher Reeve character fiction interesting I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly. Christopher Rice writing believe fiction I had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn't want to do any more of that myself, I wanted us to be included in the popular mainstream of entertainment fiction. Christopher Rice gay done fiction A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear. Cinda Williams Chima ears character fiction We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into it. They made it their own. There are names of plants or chants or certain rites and everything that you cannot come across it in a movie. You know, you cannot learn about them casually. So the film doesn't have value in the ethnographical, anthropological. It's fiction. Ciro Guerra names together fiction Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew. Claudia Christian science-fiction bisexual fiction Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future. Clifton Fadiman entertainment fiction art «678910111213141516»